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the scenes and find out what Honey P├нlar is like in her unguarded

moments.тАЩ The camera zoomed to the main gateтАФand then, nothing.

We weren't allowed in, even though my news service had confirmed

our appointment for that morning. Honey had changed her mind.

"Fifteen years later, I was working for Visions/Rumelia, and once

again, I stood by the high gilded gate. тАШWhat secrets does this young

beauty know that maintain her position as the world's premiere

moddy star?тАЩ That was my lead. Honey P├нlar never told me her

secrets, of course. But she did make an appearance. She was tanned

and smiling and, well, perfect. A week before that interview, a poll

had announced that sixty-eight percent of the seven billion people
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on earth could identify her face. Eighteen percent could identify her

naked, unaugmented breasts. That was five years ago.

"Tonight, we begin a new series: тАШHoney P├нlar: A Quarter Century

of Fascination.тАЩ Never in the history of the personality-module

industry or, indeed, of the entire entertainment industry, has one

performer so dominated the charts. Since her now-classic first

moddy, тАШA Life in Lace,тАЩ recorded when she was a mere youth, she

has turned out thirty-eight full-length recordings and nine of the

тАШquickiesтАЩ that A.T.B. experimented with and then abandoned. Her

total sales top one hundred and twenty million units, and every one

of her recordings remains in print. As of last week, she had eight

titles on the тАШBrainwavesтАЩ Hot One Hundred Chart, with two in the